Joe DioGuardi on Free Trade

Restrict Canadian vessels on coast trade

DioGuardi co-sponsored H.CON.RES.157 : A concurrent resolution to express strong support for the cabotage laws protecting the coastwide trade to vessels of American construction, crewing, and documentation, and to support the
Administration's policy in the U.S.-Canadian free trade talks that the coastwise trade not be opened to Canadian vessels. The bill garnered 233 co-sponsors but died in the Subcommittee on Trade.

Source: Bill sponsorships, Library of Congress
Jul 9, 1987

Block Soviet imports made by forced labor

DioGuardi co-sponsored H.CON.RES.83 : to express to the Soviet Union the strong moral opposition of the United States to the forced labor policies of the Soviet Union by every means possible,
including refusing to permit the importation into the United States of any products made in whole or in part by such labor. The bill garnered 153 co-sponsors but died in the Committees on Foreign Affairs.